The second largest continent of the world is Africa. This continent has 54 countries and on “non – self territory” the Western Sahara. It is the most populous and the only black continent.

The total area of the Africa continent is 30.2 million sq. km. It covers about one fifth of the total land surface area of the Earth and it covers six percent of the Earth. It is the hottest continent on the Earth.

Islam is the largest religion of Africa which is followed by Christianity. The total population of It’s is 14.72% (Approximately) of the world’s population. Sudan is the largest country of Africa.

The Nile river is the longest river of the world which is located in Africa and the length of this river is 4, 132 miles. African elephant is the largest land animal of the world and world tallest animal is giraffe which are found in Africa.